Teamwork in Healthcare: Promoting Effective Teamwork in Healthcare in Canada....
To prepare this report, an interprofessional research team conducted in-depth interviews with key informants and undertook a wide-ranging survey of peer-reviewed and grey literature on the components...
View ArticleAn Intervention to Enhance Nursing Staff Teamwork and Engagement
In this study, an intervention to enhance teamwork and staff engagement was tested on a medical unit in an acute care hospital. The results showed that the intervention resulted in a significantly...
View ArticleEvaluating the Effectiveness of Health Care Teams
While it is recognised that effective health care teams are associated with quality patient care, the literature is comparatively sparse in defining the outcomes of effective teamwork. This literature...
View ArticleMedical Teamwork and Patient Safety: The Evidence-Based Relation
The science of team performance and training can help the medical community improve patient safety. This report, commissioned by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), assesses the...
View ArticleDeveloping a Human Resources for Health (HRH) Effort Index to Measure...
Current indicators used to measure efforts and progress in HRH are limited and often unreliable. These limitations constrain country, donor, and program efforts to identify and address gaps in HRH and...
View ArticleOptimizing Performance and Quality
Optimizing Performance and Quality (OPQ) is a stakeholder-driven, cyclical process for analyzing human and organizational performance and setting up interventions to improve performance and quality or...
View ArticleThe Effect of Hospital Service Quality on Patient's Trust
This study aimed to examine the effect of quality of services provided in private hospitals on the patient’s trust. [from abstract]
View ArticleLean Management in the South African Public Health Sector: A Case Study
This chapter gives an account of one relatively modest but effective intervention in an orthopaedic outpatient clinic at the New Somerset Hospital (NSH) in Cape Town in 2013. This project aimed to...
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